Rove: "I Fully Expect to Be Indicted By the End of the Year"

Posted by Ben Armbruster, Think Progress at 2:03 PM on March 10, 2008.

Karl Rove clashes with hostile protesters at a University of Iowa appearance, personally insults audience members and slanders Joe Wilson.

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Karl Rove, former senior aide to President Bush, spoke to a hostile crowd at the University of Iowa yesterday evening. Students and local citizens protested his appearance at the university and “staged a mock trial” for Rove inside the student union before the speech.

During the lecture, Rove lashed out at hostile questioners, telling one man his comment showed “a simple, stupid mind” and chastised what he said were “stupid statements” from the audience. Rove also said that former Amb. Joseph Wilson “lied” about his 2002 trip to Niger and accused an audience member of “perpetuating libel” on the U.S. military for asking about the real number of deaths in the Iraq war:

After Rove said most Western intelligence agencies agreed that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction prior to the war, Durham said, “When I had dinner with Joe Wilson, that’s not what he said.”

“With all do respect, Joe Wilson lied about his [intelligence gathering] trip to Africa,” Rove responded, drawing more boos. […]

When an audience member asked him about the “true” body count in Iraq, Rove accused the individual of “perpetuating libel on the military of the United States by accusing them of killing innocent Iraqis.”

Responding to a question about CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson’s outing, Rove, seemingly joking, added:

I haven’t been indicted yet, but I fully expect to be by the end of the year.

The University paid Rove $40,000 for the speech and had to agree to limit “recording equipment and flash photography” to “the first five minutes of the lecture.” At the end of the talk, an audience member shouted at Rove: “Can we have our $40,000 back?” Rove replied: “No, you can’t.”

Perhaps Rove needs to keep the $40,000 in expectation of substantial legal fees.

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Benjamin J. Armbruster is a Research Associate for The Progress Report and ThinkProgress.org at the Center for American Progress.

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The Fix is Already In, You Can Be Sure [Report this comment] Posted by: AlexLawyer on Mar 10, 2008 6:28 PM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Is it too much to hope that Rove is indicted and, to save his abundant skin, agrees to testify against Bush, Cheney et al.? Probably, because I'm sure he's already on the list, along with The Condom (you know, the one who protected the Dick when he screwed Valerie Plame, then got flushed--Scooter Libby), for a parting pardon during Bush's exit. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Waterboard the Little Shit [Report this comment] Posted by: JSquercia on Mar 10, 2008 7:14 PM Current rating: 4 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] I say Waterboard the Little Shit and if he dies so be it . I have yet to figure out why the idea that Niger was such an appealing locale that Wilson would LEAP at the opportunity to get an all expense paid trip . [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Mr. Nasty. [Report this comment] Posted by: Longdream on Mar 10, 2008 7:36 PM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Where's the big effing Mastermind? Where's the Man Behind the Curtain? I love seeing him reduced to these little "I'm rubber, you're glue" insults. Next we're going to hear how he mooned someone for suggesting he learned everything he knows from Donald Segretti, Nixon's Secretary of Dirty Tricks. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] THIS IS GREAT [Report this comment] Posted by: ruscle on Mar 10, 2008 9:48 PM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] I'm glad to see the students giving Rove a hard time. Sounds like he had a bad night. Maybe it was worth $40,000 just to express those things to him. I hope Bush gets the same treatment when he goes out on his eagerly awaited tour. (Eagerly awaited by him. Bush thinks he's going to clean up in the cash department.) Love to see them both Rove and Bush have nervous breakdowns and develop a strong fear of stepping outside their homes. Idiots. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE: THIS IS GREAT Posted by: DEBKAMAINE » RE: THIS IS GREAT Posted by: Longdream Somebody grab McStarr... [Report this comment] Posted by: ABetterFuture on Mar 10, 2008 11:34 PM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] ...because someone may have forgotten their utterances, 7 years hence. Gosh, don't you love judicial politics...isnt't that what make americuh grate? [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] His own words betray [Report this comment] Posted by: huricane on Mar 11, 2008 12:25 AM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] a belief or perception that he operates on an entirely different level than everyone else. He clearly views civil society with contempt, which enables him to pursue his own agenda and completely disregard the damage as irrelevant. After the Second Civil War, I wish him and the puppets he makes dance a brief and unceremonious "Romanian Retirement." [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Shame on University of Iowa [Report this comment] Posted by: Aimleft on Mar 11, 2008 7:42 AM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] for paying this lying son of a bitch $40,000.00 to come speak. Although it may have been worth it just for him to be treated the way he deserves. (Well, not completely. If he got what he deserved, his ass would be sitting in jail right now and for the rest of his life.) I'm glad those young people put him on the spot, and cannot believe the gall of this man with some of his responses to them. Or the gall for him to consider himself a worthy speaker at all. Then again, if a school is going to pay that kind of money.....but what a shame. And what a waste of good dollars. If I were a student, I'd be protesting that good money going to pay a scumbag like Rove. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Administration dumb, students smart [Report this comment] Posted by: GeorgiaBlue on Mar 11, 2008 11:06 AM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] What a stupid move by the administration to pay that little, lying piggie $40,000 to come to the university and do more lying. You can get his lying crap for free every day on Fox and the internet. Hooray for the students; they showed they were much smarter than the administrators. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] so proud of these students [Report this comment] Posted by: aalif ba ta tha on Mar 11, 2008 9:23 PM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] watch the video of this asshole getting hassled [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Leave Bush alone... [Report this comment] Posted by: Bearzerker on Mar 12, 2008 4:04 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] but nail every one of his henchmen with any little thing they ever did... crucify them all... But wait till Bush is out of office so these clowns wont get the presidential pardon they know is coming while he is their lapdog... Prosecute for treason, graft and everything else their guilty of... and hold them to the letter of the law... every last one of em this gang of incompetence is guilty in the deaths of hundreds of thousands if not millions of people during their watch! and it was planned from the outset in 2000 or even before then [PNAC] [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Speaker Fees [Report this comment] Posted by: Sissy on Mar 12, 2008 5:48 AM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] I wonder if Alberto is still on the speaker's circuit? He went to some universities with his hand out after leaving the Cabinet and didn't get the best of receptions either. You know the jackasses who come out of this particular administration and want to make the big bucks from a speaker's bureau, are being paid with student fees and tax payer money and I would like to know why? It certainly isn't because they have contributed to our country and want to share their wisdom. I would much rather have them give their opinions from a witness chair in a court of law where the ultimate ending would be their lying asses being carted off to jail. Karl Rove epitimizes everything that is wrong with these past 7+ years. From the way he ran The Texas Turd's campaigns of fear and intimidation, to being an architect in trashing our Constitution, to defying the Congress, and to destroying people's lives who got in the way of their Agenda. To pay this creep one cent is too much and I for one as a tax payer and proponent of public education resent any compensation for him to do so. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE: Speaker Fees Posted by: Longdream » RE: Speaker Fees ~ Ahhhh, there you are Longdream Posted by: Sissy

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